Shillington
MARCH 29, 2021
Simoul Alva is a Visual Designer and Art Director based in New York. She works across identity design, storytelling and visual strategy. Her clients include The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, Adobe, WIRED, Slack, New York Magazine and Wieden+Kennedy. She represented India at the 44th Worldskills and won a ‘Medallion Of Excellence’ for the country.
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 29, 2021
Access All Areas members have a brilliant new font to download this week, courtesy of Floodfonts. Pulpo is a friendly and comfortable looking typeface inspired by Century Schoolbook and Clarendon. Longer extenders give the text more room to breathe and improves legibility at small sizes. The family is provided in four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bolt Italic, which can all be combined and paired together to emphasise certain words and phrases in your text.
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Noupe
MARCH 29, 2021
After putting in multiple hours on researching, outlining, writing, and editing the first draft of your article, you’re eager to press the publish button. You want to share it with your audience, and earn some appreciation. But guess what? Your audience won’t bother reading your article unless they find its packaging appealing. You need to ensure a robust user experience (UX) on your website for your prospective visitors.
Design Wizard
MARCH 29, 2021
12 Product Marketing Ideas. Creating a new product takes a lot of time and work. Then, after all of that work is over, you need to figure out how to market a product. There are now more marketing tools than ever before. So, where do you start? As more businesses shift their marketing strategy to make it more visible online, there are a few things you can’t miss.
Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People
Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t
Envato Tuts+
MARCH 29, 2021
What You'll Be Creating. Learn how to take advantage of Photoshop's Smart Objects to mock up your logo with photorealistic results. Thanks to the use of multiple layer styles, we can create wood branding Photoshop Effects for our businesses and projects. But first, do you need to design a logo? Check out this simple, easy-to-use online logo maker. Over 745 smart logo templates to design your custom logo all in one place, Placeit.
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Design Week
MARCH 29, 2021
Wikipedia turns 20 this year. The online, collectively-edited encyclopedia – which has always remained free – is one of the most visited websites in the world, familiar to students reading up on subjects, writers of trivia quizzes and fans of obscure culture alike. What is likely less well-known is its design output. Its in-house team – known as ‘the brand studio’ – is responsible for telling Wikipedia’s story, often in places it hasn’t reached yet
The Die Line
MARCH 29, 2021
Inspired predominantly by the influence Mother Nature has on wine vinification, Makes & Allies set out to construct a textured and distinctive look.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 29, 2021
Editorial Design for POLY. abduzeedo 03.29.21 MORPHORIA COLLECTIVE shared a super stylish editorial design project for Poly – short for polycentric – just like the Ruhr region. Once a year, the English-language magazine guides travelers and locals through the metropolitan region. The pioneering function is already visualized in the logo on the cover.
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Colossal
MARCH 29, 2021
“Persian Kangaroo.” All images © Debbie Lawson, shared with permission. A new menagerie of polar bears, stags, and kangaroos resemble typical wildlife except for the fact that they’re literally swept under the carpet, their features hidden from view. These towering sculptural forms are by artist Debbie Lawson ( previously ), who crafts animals that are cloaked in sweeping Persian rugs.
Creative Review
MARCH 29, 2021
With B&Q enjoying bumper profits last year due to customers embracing DIY while stuck at home, it is now clearly hoping to repeat this trick in the gardening sector, with a new campaign focusing on its range of plants. Created by Uncommon Creative Studio, the new spot follows the agency’s Build A Life work for B&Q last summer, which emphasised that DIY is as much about creating a dream home for your family as it is about hanging some shelves.
Its Nice That
MARCH 29, 2021
The Paris-based art director, graphic and type designer talks about the importance of custom typography as an expressive tool.
Design You Trust
MARCH 29, 2021
Pixie Trap. According to an artist Jovana Trajanova: “Soon after the pandemic started, I found myself too scared and paranoid to do anything just like everyone else. Go to the market, see a friend, do anything that was my life before. The one thing that stayed at home was my ability to do art, and I started thinking of it as therapy. These illustrations are a product of my willfulness to make each day easier and think of more simple things – fairies, pixies, magic, fireflies, birds&#
Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design
Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.
Creative Review
MARCH 29, 2021
By day, Gavin Strange works as a director and designer for Aardman Animations, and by night he operates as JamFactory, an alias which sees him indulge in his love of side projects. Here he tells us how he does it. The post Gavin Strange on balancing the day job with passion projects appeared first on Creative Review.
Design You Trust
MARCH 29, 2021
The idea that 1970s fashion was an expression of one’s personality replaced the everyone-follow-the-famous trend of the ’50s and ’60s. Clothes were made to mix and match with each other as well as across gender guidelines. More: Flickr h/t: vintag.es. Vogue declared “There are no rules of the fashion game now. You’re playing it and you make up the game as you go.”.
Graphis
MARCH 29, 2021
If the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has got your travel bug biting harder than ever, “meet” Graphis in Mill Valley for this week’s featured Design Annual 2022 entries! Meet is a Korean barbecue restaurant in Seattle, Washington. They were looking to target young people as their main customer base, but to do so they desperately needed […].
Design You Trust
MARCH 29, 2021
The Perry Bible Fellowship or PBF comics have been around longer than some of you have been alive. The dark and ingenious ideas of Nicholas Gurewitch have been shaking the world for two decades. What started as a university newspaper comic strip has become one of the internet’s most beloved webcomics packed with whimsical, dark, and unexpected humor.
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Design You Trust
MARCH 29, 2021
According to Zubin Jhaveri: “This paper sculpture is inspired by the intricately carved domes of ancient Indian temples the likes of which are not found today. Numerous nymphs playing musical instruments and dancing in various poses were carved into the domes at a height of 50 feet. These scenes of joyous worship inevitably feel like a poem in stone that makes the viewer oblivious to all but a feeling of being transported to a divine dimension.
Communication Arts
MARCH 29, 2021
Inspired by fictional worlds, Tofunmi Yosola mixes the everyday and the fantastical in her illustrations.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 29, 2021
Moneta — Branding and Web Design. abduzeedo 03.29.21 Dot Creative shared a branding and web design project for Moneta, an imaginary financial news brand with the mission of informing its audience about the critical and important actions of the global financial scene. The UX team at Dot Creative challenged themselves and designed a news portal that offers an original and interesting journalistic tone with a vigorous in-depth expertise in the background.
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Its Nice That
MARCH 29, 2021
Falling in love with illustration after an Erasmus year in Falmouth, Virginia is becoming a master of illustrative interpretation.
Purple Rose Graphics
MARCH 29, 2021
I was watching a T.V. show the other day about a scrappy bunch of software developers in California. In the show the team of four nerdy guys is preparing for a meeting to present their company to potential investors. They kept talking about their clothes and the demo of their product. It must have been my public relations education kicking in because I could not stop thinking about badly they needed a pitch deck.
The Die Line
MARCH 29, 2021
When Julia Marsh became a designer and started developing packaging systems, her reverence for Mother Earth felt at odds with her career. She hated relying on single-use plastic packaging, so she decided to look for an alternative material—seaweed.
Azure Magazine
MARCH 29, 2021
With the touch of a button — or a tap of the smartphone — the counter becomes an invisible cooking surface. It’s a startling yet seamless transformation, offering a sleek, safe and efficient cooktop that saves valuable space in the kitchen. Distributed in Canada exclusively by Ciot , InvisaCook harnesses innovative induction technology to revolutionize the countertop’s functional and aesthetic possibilities.
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